A statistical analysis has inspired a change in how a major rugby tournament awards league points. Niven Winchester tells the story and discusses its possible implicationsdoi:10.1111/j.1740-9713.2016.00965.xNiven WinchesterJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Significance...
To win the game one team must score more points than the opponent within 80 minutes. SCORING FOR THE TEAM Points can be scored by one of four ways: TRY –5 points is scored when a player grounds the ball by applying downward pressure on it on the goal line, in the ‘in-goal’ ar...
Colchester went on to win the Conference title - and promotion back to the Football League - on goal difference after both sides finished level on 92 points. Plymouth Argyle 'keeper Fred Craig scored five goals for the club, all from the penalty spot. He netted three times during the 1926...
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Motherwell, who face Rangers at Fir Park tomorrow, are in the hunt for third again this season but, after just 12 league games, are already a massive 15 points behind Celtic. Follow that to a logical conclusion and what will it be come the end of the season 30 points or even 45? Suc...
points over Worcester's chief National Division One rivals and thereafter another trip to Saracens in the next round.'To be honest this game ranks below a league game,' Cooke said last night, 'but this is the fifth round of the Cup and we want to do well and progress.'We desperately ...
NORTHERN United centre Brenton Cochrane scored four tries and helped set a Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League points record as the Dirawongs notched a 102-0 victory over Lower Clarence at the Maclean Showground yesterday afternoon.The Dirawongs scored 20 tries, with 12 players crossing the ...
Glyn ReesContributorRUGBY LEAGUE: The Allora-Clifton Wattles have received a boost with classy back-rower Mitch Koina cleared to run on in tomorrow's top-of-the table clash between the Warriors and the Highfields Eagles at Platz Oval.Koina was a key component in the Wattles' engine room ...